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10-29-2011, 07:57 AM
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Galactus
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: the void
Posts: 31,161
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I am currently reading a biography on American President Rutherford B. Hayes with my sons for a school project. My kids are direct descendants of President Hayes through my wife’s side of the family. We actually live in the same town in Ohio where he was born. The location of the house he was born in is now a gas station that I frequent from time to time. Pretty strange to think he was in the same town as we are now. It is inspirational to my kids that someone from their family that lived in the same town they live in went on to become President of the United States. Well, my son anyway…I’ll be sure to tell my daughters that girls cannot be President. Just kidding 
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10-29-2011, 10:47 PM
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#462
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Baron Zemo
Join Date: May 2006
Location: we know each other, he's a friend from work
Posts: 16,341
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rychehitman
I am currently reading a biography on American President Rutherford B. Hayes with my sons for a school project. My kids are direct descendants of President Hayes through my wife’s side of the family. We actually live in the same town in Ohio where he was born. The location of the house he was born in is now a gas station that I frequent from time to time. Pretty strange to think he was in the same town as we are now. It is inspirational to my kids that someone from their family that lived in the same town they live in went on to become President of the United States. Well, my son anyway…I’ll be sure to tell my daughters that girls cannot be President. Just kidding |
That's pretty cool that you are related to a President and that you can share that with your kids. Very neat.
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11-09-2011, 08:10 PM
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#463
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,146
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The Silver Warriors by Michael Moorc0ck -
One of the more obscure Eternal Champions, I love Count Urlic Skarsol. Torn away from pure happiness as another champion, Urlic wakes up in a frozen earth, that I feel is Conrad Arflane's (The Ice Schooner)frozen world some millenia later. Here's something I only just picked up after forgetting (I probably read my copy 30 years ago) that isn't the Silver Warrior on the cover, that's Count Urlic, who will kill the Silver Wariors. Reading this makes me just wanna commit, and re-read all the Eternal Champion books again. I recently finished all 6 Corum books, so I guess Count Brass and Dorian Hawkmoon are next.
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11-09-2011, 11:04 PM
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#464
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Kindly Asked To Leave
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Coast
Posts: 24,710
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Just bought Stephen King's "Full Dark, No Stars", but I don't have much free time at the moment.
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12-11-2011, 10:11 PM
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#465
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
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Quote:
Originally Posted by protector2814
The Silver Warriors by Michael Moorc0ck -
One of the more obscure Eternal Champions, I love Count Urlic Skarsol. Torn away from pure happiness as another champion, Urlic wakes up in a frozen earth, that I feel is Conrad Arflane's (The Ice Schooner)frozen world some millenia later. Here's something I only just picked up after forgetting (I probably read my copy 30 years ago) that isn't the Silver Warrior on the cover, that's Count Urlic, who will kill the Silver Wariors. Reading this makes me just wanna commit, and re-read all the Eternal Champion books again. I recently finished all 6 Corum books, so I guess Count Brass and Dorian Hawkmoon are next.
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The Silver Warriors, The Ice Schooner... Oh wow, now you're bringing back some memories. Yeah, those lesser-known Moorcock novels were a lot of fun.
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12-13-2011, 08:13 PM
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#466
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Phoenix
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Posts: 12,146
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I recently visited Moorc0ck's home page and dug around for an in-order, complete list on all the Eternal Champion books. I thought I had a pretty substantial collection, but have found out I'm missing a lot.
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12-14-2011, 09:06 AM
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#467
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
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Back in the '90s White Wolf Publishing put out a series of hardcovers with the intent of collecting all of Moorcock's works in a standard format. I think they released 16 volumes, not sure if it was truly completed. Well-known fantasy/comic artists did the covers, interiors were illustrated... they looked great. I wish I would have bought them all.
Oh, and as far as what I'm reading: News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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12-15-2011, 06:02 PM
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#468
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You got red on you
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Australia
Posts: 8,009
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Damned by Chuck Palahniuk and Akira Vol. 3.
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12-21-2011, 11:23 AM
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Mod Guru
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: New York/Spain
Posts: 12,787
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11/22/63 by Stephen King. Terrific read so far. King at his best.
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12-21-2011, 12:41 PM
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#470
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Ghost
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 8,648
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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
750 pages of weirdness edited by Peter Straub, and there's a second volume covering from the 1940s to the present. 
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